Tool handle



J. COSTELLO TOOL HANDLE Sept. 9 1924. 1,503,271

Filed April 9 1923 awue/wboz J 5'08754 L0 47. 1am I, zr/ V6.4

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Application filed April 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH Cos'rnnLo, a citizen of the United States. residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool Handles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and inexpensive handle provided at its front end with a socket to receive a shank on a knife blade or other tool, said socket being provided with at least one flexible side wall which may be drawn inwardly by means of a bolt or like fastener passing across the socket and through the tool shank, for the purpose of rigidly clamping said shank in the socket.

In carrying out the above end, a further object is to provide a construction permitting the socket to be formed from a single piece of sheet metal.

With the foregoing in View, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the description being supplemented by the accompanying drawing.

Figure l is a perspective View of a tool handle constructed in accordance with my invention. showing it applied to a knife blade.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the socket.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional View on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a transverse section on line 44 of Fig. 2.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the piece of sheet metal from which the tool holding socket is formed.

In the drawing above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates a substantially flat rectangular socket carried by the front end of a suitable handle 2 and adapt-ed to receive a rearwardly extending shank 3 on a knife blade l or other tool. The socket 1 is provided with opposed parallel side walls 5 and 6 and the construction is such that the wall 5 may be drawn inwardly to tightly hold the tool shank 3. A bolt 7 or other similar fastener passes through the side walls 5 and 6 and through an opening 8 in the shank 3 and when this bolt or fas- 1923. Serial No. 630,887.

tener is tightened, not only is the shank OFFICE. v

positively held against withdrawing from the socket, but it is frictionally clamped, due to the fact that the side wall 5 is drawn inwardly by the fastener.

In the preferred form of construction, I make use of a T-shaped piece of metal such as that indicated in Fig. 5, for the purpose of forming the socket 1 and attaching it to the handle 2. The shank 9 of the T is driven into the front end of the handle or otherwise attached to the latter and the head 13 of the socket 1 and is then bent inwardly to provide the side wall 5. By constructing the socket in this manner, it maybe made easily and cheaply, yet it will be sufficiently rigid and durable to provide a very effective connection between the tool and handle.

As excellent results are obtainable from the details disclosed, they are preferably followed, but within the scope of the invention as claimed, numerous minor changes may be made.

I claim A tool holder comprising a handle, a T- shaped piece of metal whose shank is secured to said handle and whose head extends unequal distances beyond opposite edges of said shank, both end portions of said head being bent laterally to engage the edges of a tool shank, the longer end of the head being then bent inwardly in parallel relation with the portion of the head be-- tween the first named bends, providing a rectangular receiving socket for the tool shank and a flexible side wall for said socket, and a fastener passing transversely across the socket and extending through said flexible side wall for the purpose of drawing said wall inwardly toward the other side to frictionally clamp the tool shank in place. i

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

JOSEPH COSTELLO. 

